Nuala Willis, witty contralto who ranged from Glyndebourne to Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet She was a stalwart of the composer Jonathan Dove, appearing in his 2002 television opera about the death of ...
Just in time for spring break, First Coast Opera will stage Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado on March 20-21 in Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College. Nelson Sheeley returns to direct with longtime ...
Once they were everywhere, mainstays of all the choral societies in the land, rousing us to action or soothing us with maternal balm. But now the contralto only seems to exist in the realms of the old ...
When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: “I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you.” Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is ...